Measuring device for powdered materials



(No Model.)

I B. R. FOSTER;

MEASURING DEVIGE FOR POWDERED MATERIALS.

Patented Deo.8,1891.

1, if -%////////////Alllflll%i A BENJAMIN R. FOSTER, OF s'r. LOUIS, MISSOURI.

MEASURING DEVICE FOR POWDER EDLMATERIALS.

"SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 464,823, dated December 8 1891.

Application filed July 20, 1891. $eria1 No.- 400,141. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern;

Be it known that I, BENJAMIN R. FOSTER, of the city of St. Louis, in the State of Missouri, have invented a certain new and useful Improvement in Devices for Holding and Administering Pulverized Soap, of which the following is a full, clear, and exactdescription, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, forming part of this specification.

This invention relates to a coadjutory at tachment to wash-stands, &c., for a depository for pulverized soap, with slide-valves of diverse capacity that govern the discharge of soap and a stirring device that stirs and forwards said pulverized soap to its discharge; and the invention consists in features of novelty hereinafter fully described, and point ed out in the claims.

Figure I is a vertical section taken on line I I, Fig. II, and shows the bracket attachment of the depository-box, its interior arrangement, a side view of one of the slide-valves, the spring that forces said valve back to its retired closed position, and the vertical stirring device that stirs'and forwards the pulverized soap to the open port at which it is discharged. Fig. II is a like vertical section taken on the stagger line II II, Fig. I, and shows a front view, the duplex slide-valves of diverse capacity, andthe combined stirrers and forwarders that are mounted on the stems thatcarry. said valves. FignIII is a horizontal section taken immediately beneath the slide-valves, and shows the open portswith which said valves register when pushed in, and the escape-ducts, by way of which any stray soap that works under the valve-stems finds free egress into the discharge-vent; and Fig. IV is a detail of one of the slide-valves, and shows the stirrer-bow that rises vertically therefrom.

Referring to the drawings, 1 represents the receptacle in the boxing 2, in which pulverized soap is stored, which receptacle, may be attached to a wall 3, and preferably adjacent to a wash-stand bythe bracket 4. 5 is the cap or cover of said receptacle. The boxing of the receptacle converges toward the center at bottom, thus forming an inclined chute 6, through which the pulverized soap is precipitated onto the duplex sliding valve-stems 7,

and passes into the major valve-port 8 and the minor valve-port 9 in their respective stems, and'one of said valve-stems, according to the amount of soap required, is pushed .t. into registering coincidence with its corre sponding open port-10 in the bottom of the receptacle, there being two such open ports respectively on .line with the sliding valveport that works into registry therewith.

12 represents duplex vertical agitator-bows that are respectively secured in and ascend from the respective sliding'stem of each valve, which valve-stem at its outer end is provided with an operating-handle 13, by which the respective slide-valve that is required at the time being to operate is pushed in until its open port registers with the open port 10 in the bottom of the-receptacle, so as to secure the discharge of a certain amount of the pulverized soap onto the hands or into the washbasin or other depository, as the case may be,

' the said amount being gaged by the capacities of said major and minor valve-ports, the measure being struck full by the rear incline 21 at the back of the inclined chute, so that the exact measure, respectively, of the major or minor valve-port (as the case may be) is appropriated each time. Thus the amount of the discharge is regulated by the respective operation of the major valve to effect a large discharge and of the minor valve to eifect a small discharge. The open port thus secured to efiect said dis-' charge by pushing one or the other of said valve-stemsinto its operative position is immediately thereafter closed by the return action of the stem under the influence of the reactionary spring 14, one of which is provided for and works against each stem and throws its valve-port back tobe again refilled for future use.

15 represents a cavity inthe-throat of the receptacle that provides suflicient liberty for the working of the agitators in the soap as the valve-stems move back and forth, and the movement of the valve-stem is limited to its respective positions of openand closed ports by the impact of said agitator-bows 12 with the buEer-stay provided by their contact with the sides of said inclined chute 6.

16 represents the perforate base-block, 4

which forms the bottom of the receptacle, to which it is secured by the screws 17, and within the countersunk channel 18 in said baseblock the sliding valve-stems 7 are seated and work.

19 represents the perforate discharge-vent in the center of said base-block, through which the quota required'of pulverized soap is discharged for use. a

20 represents escape ducts that incline downward and inward from the countersunk channel 18 on either hand beyond the open ports 10 and empty into the perforate discharge-vent 19, so as to provide an escape vent for any stray particles of soap that may miss the open ports 10 and deliverthem with the main discharge. 1

I claim as my invention-- 1. In a device for holding and distributingpulverized washing-soap, the combination of the receptacle 1, having within it the inclined chute 6 and provided with the open ports'10 in its bottom and the escape-ducts 20,. the straight parallel sliding valve-stems '7', which are respectively provided with the major port 8 and the m-inorport 9, arranged for measuring the modicum of soap to be used, an'dthe duplex bow-agitators 12,the said agitators be; ing' secured to said slide-valves, substantially as and for the purpose set forth.

2. In a device for holding and distributing pulverized washing-soap, the combination of the receptacle 1, provided with the cavity 15,

the strike 21 opposite said cavity,- the open port in its base, the sliding valve-stems 7,

which valve-stems are respectively provided with the major port 8 and the minor port 9, arranged for measuring and separating the modicum of soap to be used, the duplex bowas-and for the purpose set forth.

3. In a device for holding and distributing pulverized washing-soap, the combination of the receptacle provided with the cavity 15, the open ports 10 in its base, the perforate baseblock 16, secured beneath said receptacle, the

said block provided with the countersink channel 18, the discharge-vent 19, the escapeducts 20, and the duplex sliding valve-stems 7, that are seated in and work in said channel '18, the said valve-stems provided, respectively, with the major measure-ports 821110. the minor measure-ports 9, the reactionary springs 14, arranged to throw back the sliding valvestems to close the ports 10 and refill the valveports 8 and 9 after the distribution ot the soap, thee-trike 21, that levels the measure, and

the bracket 4, by which said receptacle is secured to the wall, &c., substantially as and fer the purpose set forth.

BENJAMIN R. FOSTER. In presence of-- BENJN. A. KNIGHT,

,SAML. KNIGHT. 

